Electronic Medical Record Article
Here are the essential points to consider when you are evaluating an EHR system for purchase.
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One of the most common questions chiropractors and patients alike have about electronic health records (EHR) is how records stay “safe.”
This is in reference to Melissa Heyboer’s article, “The $44,000 question,” which appeared in Issue 13, 2010. The following is Paul B. Bindell’s responses in their entirety.
According to the American Medical Association, there were more than 800,000 physicians in the U.S. in 2009. Of these, only 6.3% of physicians reported having a fully functional EHR system in place according to the Center for Disease Control.
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An ideal, technology-managed office visit might resemble the following:
A doctor recently sold his practice in order to relocate to another part of the country.
Q: I purchased an existing practice from a retiring chiropractor, and he said he has been billing CPT code 99203 on new patients for the past 15 years and never got in trouble. He recommended I bill the same for my new patient examinations, and I am considering it. What is the best way to justify billing my examinations with CPT code 99203?
Recently, an informal survey was conducted of a group of clients and seminar attendees.
Historically, case management has relied on the individual physician’s interpretation of how the patient feels — for diagnosing the problem and for treating it — with treatment continuing until the patient feels better and/or the symptoms go away.
Too often, doctors lurch into a cash-based practice because they don’t want to deal with insurance company issues. They don’t understand the insurance processes and the concepts behind proving medical necessity.
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009, casually known as the economic stimulus package, has generated a lot of buzz across the chiropractic profession.
One of the most important words in practice management is documentation.
If you do any personal-injury or workers’ compensation work or submit claims for reimbursement from insurance providers, you must have proper documentation.
Yet, consultants who do audits agree that results of documentation audits are often less than stellar.
Documentation’s primary rule is this: “If you did it, but you didn't write it down, it didn’t happen.”
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One of the most important words in practice management is documentation.
If you do any personal-injury or workers’ compensation work or submit claims for reimbursement from insurance providers, you must have proper documentation.
Yet, consultants who do audits agree that results of documentation audits are often less than stellar.
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